Fruit body: cap up to 12 cm, fleshy, irregular with twisted margin, surface is minutely scaly, in shades of red-brown. Hymenium is made of tubes up to 5 mm long. Pores are shallow, angular, up to 2 on 1 mm, decurrent, whitish to cream, turning yellow when bruised. Stem is up to 6x3 cm, club-shape, eccentric, yellow to brownish.

Microscopy: spores widely ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, 7.5-10x4.5-6.5 µm, whitish en masse. Basidia are septate at base, with 4 spores.

Flesh: fragile, whitish, faint smell, taste reminiscent of young hazelnut.

Habitat: season end of summer and autumn, individually or several specimens together, in mountainous coniferous and mixed forests. Rare.

Edibility: edible.

Reference: Uzelac, B. (2009). Gljive Srbije i zapadnog Balkana, BGV Logik, Beograd.

Photo: Goran Milošević